My nephew is having his Christian confirmation. So, I made this date pudding as everyone loves it. I usually make it for Christmas celebrations, as my sister had asked me to make it.
“Sticky toffee pudding, also known as sticky date pudding in Australia and New Zealand, is a British dessert consisting of a moist sponge cake, made with finely chopped dates, covered in a toffee sauce and often served with a vanilla custard or vanilla ice-cream. Sticky Toffee Date Pudding should be light in texture with a crumb structure that stands up when baked but collapses in the mouth to a dense, sweet, sticky, soft texture.”
My previous sticky dates pudding is with caramel sauce, salted caramel, bourbon caramel, cosmopolitan caramel, ouzo caramel, prosecco caramel, frangelico caramel and aperol caramel. This year, I have made it with brandy. More heavy alcohol consumption on top of wickedly addictive to it. That will make you drools.
Everyone gets second helping if serve it a tiny bit small portion. Thankfulness to God for helping me make my sticky dates pudding that is moist, soft, brandy caramel and it’s sure is wickedly additive that my family enjoy it to the fullest that fill us with heart-bursting Joy and had a marvellous dessert that everyone wouldn’t get bored. We can have it any time not just on Christmas day. Let’s bake!!!
This is one and a half recipe
Ingredients
340 g pitted dates, chopped
340 g self-raising flour, sifted plus 40-50 g extra
600 ml water
50 ml bourbon whiskey
1 Tsp bicarb soda
140 g butter salted, soft
300 g castor sugar
5 large eggs about 800 g size
1 Tsp vanilla essence
Bourbon Butterscotch Sauce
225 g brown sugar
300 g butter
375 vanilla custard
130 ml thickened cream
15 ml bourbon whiskey
2 Tsp vanilla extract
Method
Preheat oven 180 degrees C. Grease a square baking tray with 5 cm deep. Combine dates with water and bourbon whiskey in a pot over medium heat. Cook for 5-8 minutes or until dates are very soft. Add bicrab soda and stir, then set aside to cool.
Beat butter and castor sugar until thick and pale, then add eggs one at a time, beating well after each. Add vanilla, dates mixture and then fold in 340 g flour. If too liquid add extra 40 g flour. Spoon mixture into prepared baking tray.
Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes or until springy to the touch. Meanwhile, make bourbon butterscotch sauce: combine all ingredients in a pot and stir over medium heat until boiling. Simmer for 3 minutes or until combined and glossy.
Once skewer in out clean, remove sticky dates from oven. Make holes with a chopstick all around the sticky dates. Spoon the bourbon butterscotch sauce over sticky. Make sure it seeps in the hole and sides. Bake a further 5-8 minutes. Serve warm with extra bourbon butterscoth sauce, thickened cream or custard or ice cream. Enjoy!!!!
Note:You might need extra flour if it’s too liquid. Oven temperature may vary. You might need less or more time. You may omit bourbon butterscotch sauce just use water or brandy about 15 ml. You may want to make one recipe. As my family is big and everyone would go for second helpings, I make one and a half recipe.
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